The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Spirituality

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SteinerBooks, 1994 - 464 pages
Carlo Pietzner speaks, out of his own ego-directed, inner experiences, about several motifs inherent to inner striving: the problem of self in relationship to the world, the disintegration of the three soul forces, the transition from sense perception to spiritual perception, the reality of evil, the condition of loneliness, and more.
 

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Contents

Cognitive Expansion Indications of Living on the Threshold of the Supersensible Worlds
11
The Consciousness Soul Evolutionary Spiritual Agenda for our Time
45
Cosmic Intelligence Michaelic Preparations for the Respiritualization of Cosmic Intelligence
71
WISDOM ANTHROPOSOPHY EMERGING The Science of the Wisdom of the Human Arises out of NineteenthCentury Spiritualism and Theosophy
95
Theosophys Roots The Impetus for Theosophy in NineteenthCentury Spiritualism and Mediumship
97
The Importance of Freiheit The Anthroposophical Refinement of Theosophy
129
The Redemption of Sophia The Anthroposophical Rigor of True Clairvoyance
174
HUMAN THE HOLY GHOST CAUGHT IN TIME The Ambivalence of Lucifer and Ahriman across the Threshold
205
The Great Human Ideal on Earth Encountering the Guardian of the Threshold
251
The Virgin Sophia The Restoration of Imaginative Force through Inner Schooling
287
The Resurrection of the Holy Ghost Christ in Relation to the Cleaved Lucifer
319
SPEAKING THE GOOD AURIC STAR OF THE HUMAN
349
Sophias Syzygy The Trinity of Michael Sophia and Lucifer
351
Giving Speech to Sophia The Imagination of Pentecost in the House of Speech
397
NOTES
423
BIBLIOGRAPHY
451

Zurvans Progeny The Cosmic Battle of Lucifer and Ahriman in Humanity
207
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About the author (1994)

Richard Leviton has written eight other books, including The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler's Guide to the Planets, Visionary Geography(2002). A professional journalist for 25 years, he has edited a national magazine on alternative medicine. More recently--in his professional capacity as senior editor for Hampton Roads Publishing Company in Virginia--he has developed a line of alternative medicine self-care titles as well as authoritative metaphysical books.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Spirituality
AuthorRichard Leviton
PublisherSteinerBooks, 1994
ISBN0880103795, 9780880103794
Length464 pages
  
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